They analysed water levels, beach gradients and German defensive ... as soon as it was fired. Delivering an invasion force of the scale of D-Day would require a huge harbour.

Day veteran from Kent has marked his 100th birthday. In June, Peter Smoothy, a former Herne Bay pub landlord, walked the ...

Ken Cooke was conscripted into the 7th Battalion, Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) in 1943 A D-Day veteran ... wave of the invasion force landing on what was known as Gold Beach, and has gone ...

The landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion of ... wading ashore on Utah Beach The fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it ...

Less than 24 hours after this image was taken, the unit would arrive on shore at Sword Beach, one of five landing areas ...

Winning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings. videoWinning D-Day ... WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion, launched? documentWW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion ...

The U.S. landing at Omaha Beach, where the fiercest fighting was ... 25, 1944 and on May 7, 1945, less than a year after the ...

A century of life, a moment of history. Peter Smoothy, a D-Day hero, reflects on the day that changed the world and the lives ...

the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is hosting events this week to commemorate the invasion’s 80th anniversary. The official international ceremony will take place June 6 on Omaha Beach.

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

The D-Day invasion on June 6 ... Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. The Allied planners understood that no operation, regardless of its thoroughness, could account ...